It has been alleged that the scam centres around cash fiddles at the large store, which is in Ocotal Way.

As Mars and others have documented, this point would seem to apply to a wide range of occupational scams and fiddles, ranging from the top-floor board room to the basement boiler room.

Crikey readers have contributed a lot of stories on circulation rorts, fiddles and the like over the past week or so, but here's another tale, a bit historical, which would be hysterical if it wasn't serious.

A bit of a fiddle with the new Harry Cat story - it's taken on a life of its own and insists on going through at least a couple more versions.

I got my Ps2 Network adaptor, it was a bit of a fiddle to set up but it works now.

I'm one of the few people I know who fixes hardware purely through the laying on of hands - sometimes I have a bit of a fiddle and pull things out before putting them back in, or generally twiddle knobs and such.

Britten's setting is mimetic and operatic, the piano part consisting of a stylisation of the boy's fiddling, notated on one stave only.

It's time to retrace your steps to the Temple Bar: the pubs will soon be opening, the black vials of Guinness swilling over the bar and the fiddlers beginning to fiddle…

This one-woman band fiddled and jigged from Dent to Barrow to Bradford during her recent winter tour, bringing a smile to the faces of shoppers across the North.

Origen

Old Englishfithele, denoting a violin or similar instrument (originally not an informal or depreciatory term), related to Dutchvedel and GermanFiedel, based on Latinvitulari 'celebrate a festival, be joyful', perhaps from Vitula, the name of a Roman goddess of joy and victory. Compare with viol.

In Old English fiddle was the usual word for a stringed instrument like a violin, based on Latin vitulari ‘to celebrate, be joyful’, which may come from Vitula, the name of a Roman goddess of joy and victory. In the sense ‘to swindle’ fiddle was first used in the 1630s. The connection with the instrument probably came from the idea that the ‘fiddler’ or player could make people ‘dance to his tune’. Expressions like fiddle-de-dee and fiddle-faddle, meaning ‘nonsense’, come from the idea of violin-playing being a trivial or pointless exercise, and in turn fiddle-faddle is the origin of fad.

When we criticize someone for concerning themselves with trivial affairs while ignoring serious matters, we may say that they are fiddling while Rome burns. This looks back to a story about the Roman emperor Nero. According to one historian, when Rome suffered from a disastrous fire Nero reacted by singing a song about the fall of Troy and accompanying himself on some instrument—not a fiddle, which had not been invented then. To play second fiddle is to take a less important role. The idea here is that you are there to support the person taking the leading part.

(as) fit as a fiddle

He's as fit as a fiddle of course, lean and strong, just like a good Welsh farm cat should be.

When he took that dramatic fall last year, when he looks exhausted and looks pale, as he often does, sometimes he disappears from public view, but then he reappears looking fit as a fiddle and full of energy.